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Early Humans and Neolithic Revolution

Humans first domesticate animals

This was important because it allowed work to be easier. It impacted the world to show people the easier way to finish work.

Neolithic Revolution begins; Humans first invent agriculture

8000 BCE - 7999 BCE

This was important because it helped with people's surplus of foods. It impacted the world because it allowed the population increase.

Wheel Invented

5000 BCE - 4999 BCE

First Civilizations

Civilzation develops in Ancient Mesopotamia between Tigress and Euphrates Rivers

4000 BCE - 3999 BCE

Mummification begins in Egypt

3600 BCE - 3599 BCE

This was important because Egyptians thought that if they preserve the body, they will use it in the afterlife. This allowed historians to figure out the culture of the Egyptians.

Invention of the first writing system- Cuneiform

3000 BCE - 2999 BCE

This is important because it helped write the first set of laws. This impacted other civilizations like Egypt because they also have a pictographic writing system.

Egyptian government ruled by Pharaoh

2700 BCE - 2699 BCE

This was important because Egyptians thought that Pharaoh was considered a god. This impacted world history in a way that made people see what they have in their tombs when they die.

First set of written laws- Code of Hammurabi

1792 BCE - 1791 BCE

World Religions

Abraham founds Judaism

1800 BCE - 1799 BCE

This is important because Judaism is one of the world's most popular religions of the world. This impacted the branches of the belief in one god with both Christians and Jews.

Hinduism founded in India

1700 BCE - 1699 BCE

Temple Mount built

957 BCE - 956 BCE

This is important because it was a religious site for Jews and Palestinians. This impacted world history by seeing this site as not only religious but as a battleground.

Siddhartha Guatama founds Buddhism

563 BCE - 562 BCE

Jesus Born

4 BCE - 3 BCE

This was important because it marked the end of the before Christ era. This impacted the world by being the start of the Christ era and picks up the religious idea of Christianity.

Jesus crucified

30 CE - 31 CE

Establishment of Christianity

40 CE - 41 CE

Muhammad was born-founder of Islam

570 - 571

Muhammad dies in Jerusalem at the Dome of the Rock

632 - 633

Greece/Rome

Civilization develops in Ancient Greece

1600 BCE - 1599 BCE

Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey

890 BCE - 889 BCE

This is important because this allowed people to learn more about the Greek culture. This impacted world history because these stories were one of the first tall tales that were written down.

Athens and Sparta were the first city-states

800 BCE - 799 BCE

This was important because these city-states were the first two cities to have opposite values to the point that it literally divided them. This impacted world history to the point that the US take ideas from both city-states.

Ancient Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus

753 BCE - 752 BCE

This was important because this allowed the start of the Roman Republic. This impacted world history because Rome was apart of the ideas that the US has today in modern times.

Socrates born; invents Socratic Method

469 BCE - 468 BCE

This is important because Socrates was a very important philosopher. This impacted world history so people could use the Socratic Method in the field of law.

Trial of Socrates; Socrates dies

399 BCE - 398 BCE

Augustus is the first Emperor of the Roman Empire; Pax Romana

44 BCE - 43 BCE

Julius Caesar is murdered-Roman Republic ends

44 BCE - 43 BCE

This was important because the Roman Republic had many flaws with the government structure. This impacted world history in a way for America to take ideas on how to structure its government.

Roman Empire at its largest

117 CE - 118 CE

Fall of the Roman Empire

410 - 411

This was important because the empire was getting out of control and soon it was about to fall. This impacted world history because people had a better sense in what government they wanted.

Europe in the Middle Ages

Arabs take control of Jerusalem

638 - 639

Feudal System Develops in Europe

850 CE - 851 CE

This is important because in the feudal system, people were heavily dependent on each other. This impacted world history so people would be able to see the benefits of other people's involvement in its community.

First Crusade

1099 CE - 1100 CE

Magna Carta limits the power of British Monarch

1215 CE - 1216 CE

This was important because this showed that not one person should have so much power. This impacted world history because this applied to when President Nixon was forced to resign as President for spying on the opposing candidate.

First Bubonic Plague outbreak

1347 - 1348

This was important because this marked the end of the feudal system. This impacted world history because people had to give them a better sense of living since most of the population was gone.

Empires of Ghana and Mali

Complex Societies exist in Ghana

1500 BCE - 1499 BCE

Kingdom of Ghana in Northwest Africa

830 - 1235

Berber Empire takes over Ghana by military force

1235 - 1236

Mansa Musa rules Kingdom of Mali

1280 - 1337

This was important because Mansa Musa was the leader that has religious tolerance. This impacted world history by showing people that other people can be in a society no matter what religion he or she practices.

Mansa Musa takes Hajj to Mecca

Kingdom of Mali becomes weakened

Renaissance

This was important because this was the first novel ever written. This impacted world history because this showed what people had a perspective on life.

Donatello sculpts David

1430 - 1440

Printing Press invented by Guttenburg; Renaissance begins

1439 - 1440

This was important because it made printing off documents faster in a short period of time. This impacted world history for people to advance the printing press into a machine that can print off documents in a matter of seconds.

Drawing techinque of perspective

1470 - 1471

This was important because it allowed people to see the real proportions of a human being.This impacted world history to have people to draw humans with a better perspective.